What the LED street light? Well, that's what happens when Boston wants to start going green with street lighting. Times change, my friend.
Once all those classic mercs are gone, that may end my ability to travel to Boston. There's still some mercs on some streets in Dorchester, Roslindale, South Boston, and some in the Fenway area, thank goodness. So as long as those are still there, I will continue to travel to Boston.
Well, personally, I'm not very wild about High Pressure Sodium 'cause orange is not right for street lighting at night. I was never wild about that since we moved to Brockton.
High Pressure Sodium is also the second most reliable light source out there right now and it's less expensive than metal halide and LED streetlights. It's used more often now that mercury vapor ballasts and fixtures are banned from manufacture and import and utility companies are not allowed to install them anymore.
Well, if I was born in Brockton, I'd be wild about HPS. But I lived in Roslindale until I was about 4 1/2 years old and during those 4 years, I was around Mercury Vapor street lighting all the time when I used to live in Roslindale.
In the early 80s, MV was still all over the USA. it was just the beginning of HPS taking over. I grew up with several MV fixtures in my house window view for like 16 years.
But you know MV actually took over incandescent times in the 50s-60s, then the 80s becomes HPS, today is LEDs, but HPS are still pretty much alive....for some reason....
Im sure everybody will probably agree that high pressure sodium is way better than LED though. It wouldnt be so bad if they made LED streetlights look like regular cobraheads. Instead of making these funny looking LED streetlights, they should just, for example, take an M250R2 shell, and put an LED driver and board inside it.
I'll rather hav.e HPS clamshells or radial waves or gumballs
The cobraheads killed off the older NEMA style fixtures (like the radial waves, quartermoons, admiral hats, gumballs, buckets etic) and the cobraheads killed off the clamshells
All I can say is that an LED fixture like that does not belong on an old school mounting Bracket like that. We have a few of these left in our territory and usually have to change them out if were replacing the fixture since our company seems to be replacing alot of the old brackets now to more modern Galvanized steel brackets. Anything installed in the last 30 years seems to look in fairly good condition.
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Once all those classic mercs are gone, that may end my ability to travel to Boston. There's still some mercs on some streets in Dorchester, Roslindale, South Boston, and some in the Fenway area, thank goodness. So as long as those are still there, I will continue to travel to Boston.
But you know MV actually took over incandescent times in the 50s-60s, then the 80s becomes HPS, today is LEDs, but HPS are still pretty much alive....for some reason....
The cobraheads killed off the older NEMA style fixtures (like the radial waves, quartermoons, admiral hats, gumballs, buckets etic) and the cobraheads killed off the clamshells
PEPCO has a LOT of old school arms......